CEFR Correlations

'Video Extra' Worksheets with Teacher’s Notes

In addition to the video material for each unit, the Cambridge English Empower Class DVD contains a series of humorous short films intended to engage your students in viewing for pleasure. Follow this link to access the worksheets for levels A2 Elementary and B1 Pre-intermediate.

'Video Extra' Worksheets with Teacher’s Notes

Author Presentations

Craig Thaine: Tuning into your learners: Assessment and Evaluation in the LessonThis webinar looks at the way teachers’ informal, instinctive and on-going evaluation of learners’ progress can feed into a more formal assessment process. Craig will focus on some specific teaching skills and explore how they can help to evaluate learners. He will also look at some practical suggestions that can help teachers face the challenge of tuning into their learners’ language.View webinar

Herbert Puchta: Teaching Adult LearnersIn this webinar Herbert Puchta discusses some recent findings about the “brain’s own reward’ system, and how we can apply them in the young adult and adult classroom. We look at various practical examples of how we can engage students, from giving them choices and helping them become aware of their learning progress, to making sure they get plenty of opportunity to experience ‘anticipated movement’.View webinar

Adrian Doff and Craig Thaine: Being Strategic: Adult Learners and SpeakingMost adult learners who enrol in an English language course are keen to learn how to speak the language, often prioritising this skill above others. Moreover, as the skill of speaking involves more than just production of oral language, when teaching speaking, teachers need to not only consider the practice of target grammar, vocabulary, functional language, and spoken fluency. In the process of developing speaking skills, it’s useful if adult learners can learn to become effective communicators in English as well.Download whitepaper